Decca 1000 Projection Set

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This is a postwar (around 1949) British projection set. This
receiver produced a 4ft X 3ft picture on a silver painted screen that
hung from the picture rail of the living room. (The picture rail in
older British houses consisted of a moulded wood decorative strip
about 3" X 1" mounted about 18" from the ceiling all
around the walls. Metal hooks that fitted the profile of the moulding
allowed pictures, mirrors and the Decca projection screen to hang
without banging nails in the walls. A similar rail was fixed about
3ft from the floor to prevent chairs from damaging the wallpaper.
This was called a ' DADO ' rail. Here is a newspaper
ad from 1953.